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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Beirut Design Week 2015 Round Up

It’s
been a hectic week, but a good one I can say. Beirut Design Week launched its
third edition with the theme “Social beings” which related Design to humanity,
collaboration, as well as social impact. I have organized my time this year to
attend more of the conferences and visit less of the exhibitions. The event
hosted the Finnish Exhibition and “The Makers” which were launched in Beirut
souks upon the opening of BDW on Monday evening. That night, I strolled around
the streets of Saifi Village and visited Starch foundation’s exhibit of its new
talents, Atelier Nawbar, a fine jewellery boutique with an in-store atelier where
you can create your own piece of jewellery, and Bokja, the furniture place that
never seizes to surprise me.

The
BDW two-day conferences were really an eye-opener for the mega new trend that objects
are designed to suit our changing lifestyles more than ever before and also to
create a social impact. I also attended the fashion talks at LAU and got the
chance to meet Steven Spiegel from NotJustALabel.com. I enjoyed hanging out in
Mar Mikhael on Friday night, especially at Vanina store, which exhibited all
its collections to date as well as its new one, and at Joe’s Fish party, where
I spent a nice time with a lot of my friends and some of them who work there. I
will tell you more about the closing party on the next post!